<It's like the poor children you anguish over. The only way you know they will be raised right is to do it yourself - - otherwise, you simply have to allow others to muddle through and offer help and hope for the best. >
My point was that paying people to cruelly treat children is the main problem. The paying happens by ignorance and indifference, not by malice, but the effect on the child is the same.
Simply flicking some spare money to somebody who points to a child is not a good thing for that child. The person spending the money has to ensure they are not paying for something they don't actually want to happen.
Children used to be adopted if the mothers didn't want them or couldn't afford to keep them. That removed children from mayhem. Now, children are a source of cash flow in Kiwiland. Those owning the children are all too often indifferent to them other than as a source of cash flow.
When money sloshes around, it has an impact where it sloshes.
<If any American president or diplomat ever thought he could help another country decide how to govern itself, he was a madman or a fool.>
Actually, calling George Bush a madman or a fool is off-beam. I'm surprised at your disloyalty to the USA. You belong on that UnAmerican thread. I support and so do many other people, George's intention to help Afghanistan decide how to govern itself. Tony Blair is all in favour. So are many people. I don't think you are right that we are all madmen and fools.
What we are going to do is replace the Taleban with a civilized government under a United Nations protectorate. The Afghans will decide the details of their governance, but it will be within acceptable international norms, with the Hague as final legal arbiter. Crimes against humanity will not go unpunished.
Let's hear it for USS Enterprise and the Kiwi soldiers now in Afghanistan [and East Timor and elsewhere].
Mqurce
PS: It is now well into October and despite high drama and huge economic shocks, the world's financial system is still upright and we have NOT had The Great Financial Collapse of 2001. A bursting dot.bomb and telecosmic collapse do NOT constitute a Great Financial Collapse [other than for those directly involved]. Uncle Al is printing plenty of money, cutting interest rates and the world is still ticking along nicely. Unemployment in the USA is still nearer 5% than 10% for goodness sakes!
Like the sandwich board man who touts "The End of the World is Nigh", this thread will have to put up a sign "I'll be back to try again next century".
Yes, I am getting cocky. Which will be fun for those who can barbecue me if the collapse happens the moment I press "Enter". |
